The Rosoboronexport, Russia's principal government corporate mediator for arms exports, will face tentative overseas purchasers with many modernisation versions of formerly exported weaponry and military technologies of Russian design and manufacture.
Arms, munitions and military technologies salvaging is getting ever more topical. The company will use the show, Nizhni Tagil 2004, for a dynamic related dialogue with established and prospective overseas clients, a Rosoboronexport spokesman said to Novosti.
Pride of place will belong to the T-72, one of the world's most popular tanks. The company has joined hands with its manufacturer, the Uralvagonzavod industrial amalgamation, to demonstrate a comprehensive programme of its modernisation.
Available updating blueprints concern all aspects-firepower, armour, manoeuvrability, and steering qualities. The modernised T 72 has a pioneer 125 mm point accuracy gun, guided missiles, and an encased large-calibre anti-aircraft machine gun installation.
The tank largely owes its firepower to its latter-day fire control equipment, complete with a multi-channel sight-telescopic, thermographic, and missile control, plus fixed laser range finder. It also has a ballistic computer with an arrangement of firing condition sensors, and a pioneer precision stabiliser.
The tank has innovative fixed dynamic protection, electromagnetic protection from magnetometric fuse mines, spray protection, and satellite-based navigation gadgetry.
Battle efficiency exceeds that of the basic T-72 version 1.7-fold or even twice to get it, in many aspects, close to the T-90C. A sum total of technical innovations makes it the most rational version for the efficiency/cost ratio.
The Rosoboronexport actively promotes the updated T-72 in the world market. At present, the company has joined a tender to modernise fire control for T-72s in the Indian army.
If India prefers the Russian option, tank unification will progress with prospects for unified crew drilling curricula, maintenance and logistics, said our informant.
